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"Fantasma" is the Portuguese word for "Ghost".

This movie goes about a house that has.. ghosts. It's really funny.

It's a classic of the Portuguese cinema.. they don't do movies like this anymore. It's B&W and it rocks!

This film revolves around a study on fear in which an academic decides to ask for help to scare a simple guy, making him believe that the house where they are is haunted. This beginning makes us think of the movie "Haunting", made decades later in the United States but with a similarly based plot. The difference is that this film, a classic Portuguese comedy, immediately assumes the probable non-existence of any supernatural phenomenon.

The film is very funny and deserves to be more advertised and seen on Portuguese TVs. Situational jokes and word games are the basis of most comedy scenes, and they're able to easily take everyone to the laughter watching it. The cast is composed by actors more connected to theater and the so-called "revista" (a popular Portuguese theater subgenre) and does a very competent job. We rarely observe too theatrical attitudes on the part of the actors, who try to act in a natural way. The film is quite simple, does not use great resources of any kind (visual or sound effects, elaborate costumes, etc.), simply trying to tell a good story and make you laugh. And this, the film manages to do easily.